#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

already epic

wth is this these refs are awful

Kmart to be indicted for hijacking a JET

I totally hadn't even consciously noticed that Carmelo switched to #7 somehow.

what was he before

what's up with Raymond Felton wasn't he literal garbage two years ago

used to be #15 xp

Felton was actually a literal donut last year. xp

what was that chant? "Refs ease off?" That seems a little too literate and precise for a mob.

oh these refs suck duh thx twitter sorry I'm an old man and need a hearing aid

green is completely shitting on the knicks

Benjamin Hochman ‏@nuggetsnews 43s
Doesn't sound like Faried is playing. GK will confirm at 2:10 press conf

ugh

this has to be the most evenly matched 2/7 series in forever.

those cedric daniels light bulbs are $13 a pop damn http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbol/h_d2/Navigation?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&cm_mmc=SEM|G|VF|DSK|D27E|LightBulbs|Cree#/?c=1&bol=bol

cree

what's a cree

i dunno but i want one. fluoros suck, i admit that im still using incandescents in all my lamps

mic'd-up pierce forever

pierce tryna lose the game

how is @netw3rk so consistently amazing idgi

lol Bradley picked jr clean

http://i.imgur.com/W3VLZtX.jpg

im dead

which Tarantino movie is that a still from

pp just vacillating b/w mvp and bum every possession

im gonna come out and say it: melo is soft

starting a long day out with jvg knowing you'll end it with reggie :: bring terrified of the aging process

*being

Just starting this game, did yall discuss how HOOOOOORRRRIBLE that will.i.am intro/song thing is?! Really embarrassing for everyone.

my friend Casey on twitter re that: Dear @nba and @abc: Please fire all your music licensing people. All of the music has been completely wrong for 11 years.

have never seen a team blow more 2nd chances

this series is mostly going to be pretty entertaining but fundamentally not very good basketball huh

Just starting this game, did yall discuss how HOOOOOORRRRIBLE that will.i.am intro/song thing is?! Really embarrassing for everyone.

― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, April 20, 2013 5:02 PM (9 minutes ago)

we did not but matt was right before when he said will.i.am is just the world'd biggest hack. the worst

lol at jvg on-air basically like "the eastern conference playoffs including this game are pointless."

melo my god

nice timing for assist #1

lol c's

really interested to see what kind of defenses they throw at steph

iggy's their best perimeter defender right?

by a lot yeah

sort of shocked evan is getting this start

when gallo went down I wanted to say I wasn't sure if chandler wasn't an upgrade atm. but idk dude has been killin it.

gallo's a better defender and ballhandler but the way willy's been shooting things could be worse

ty's moving well

I don't really think this Iceman Wilson thing is sustainable but man it's been a fun ride

iggy got away with a kick there

JAVALE btw

fucking refs

this series is gonna be a good time

first time I've seen the nuggz try twin towers in a while

that looked like an awful call in real time but it really could have gone either way. javale's rep hurts him

the charge/block rule is fine, refs just started calling too many of them charges for some reason

charge call when ballhandler has already passed is lame. but people love to complain, let's not pretend there's a finite amount of complaining energy out there. flopping as obv struck a nerve amongst many people and either pointing to other more "important" things or saying it doesn't really bother you, yeah ok your position is noted doesn't mean the rest of us have to think same way.

The rule I would like to see changed is where a defender jumps straight up to block a shot, the shooter sees the guy off his feet and jumps into him, and somehow that's a foul on the defender.

they called that pretty evenly in the heat/pacers series. So rare that the person defending ACTUALLY stays vertical, though. They usually always bend the arms down. Takes a lot of self control really.

they actually did change that rule a few years back (or at least added wording to make it explicitly an offensive foul or a non-call), it just isn't called correctly nearly often enough.

I think poly is talking about jump shooters, spottie about drivers?

Well, I'm talking about a shooter faking a jump shot, and then driving into the defender when he's in the air.

i was talking about drivers yes

agree with poly

also the sweep through foul is bogus still, even though its better that its a non shooting foul now.

maybe we need a gripe about rules / rule ideas thread?

iirc this exists but i cant recall its title

breaking lol hawks Report: Hawks Tampering With CP3, Howard
Hawks mentioned Chris Paul and Dwight Howard in a letter to potential ticket buyers, possibly violating the NBA's tampering Policy.

ways to make the NBA more exciting

maybe?

ya that must be it

https://twitter.com/NYDNInterNets/status/341726625752301568

Damn! I'm old. Still one of the best games ever created.

how many people don't get the difference between selling contact and an actual flop

Contact had decent box office gross. Far from a flop imo

ahhhh

well done

How good was the 37.1 local TV rating for Game 7 of Heat-Pacers – equaling 37.1 percent of Dade/Broward homes with TV sets? Not only did it smash the local rating for Game 7 of the Heat-Celtics Eastern finals last June (a 25.0), but it wasn’t far off from CBS-4’s 40.7 rating for this year’s Super Bowl.

By contrast, the rating was much smaller in Indianapolis for Monday's game (a 21.9). Nationally, the game was seen in 7.1 percent of U.S. homes - the most watched NBA game ever on TNT.

serious question: why do people in indianapolis not care about the pacers? they were bottom 11 in attendance this year

I have a suspicion of Malace + racists

no "superstar" to latch on to?

not the hoosiers

not the colts also

no "superstar" to latch on to?

― Poster The Sheeple (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, June 5, 2013 11:34 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

well i guess next season will be the definitive judgement on this theory

maybe if Psycho T got a push

This is a pretty amazing graphic. The Pop/Buford NBA family tree:

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2722369/Popovich-Buford-Tree.jpg

Awesome

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2013/06/03/pops-air-force-academy-yearbook/

guys, finals thread

BALLET IS LIFE - spurs vs heat, NBA finals 2013 thread